The Oakroom
The Seelbach Hilton, Louisville
500 S. Fourth St. (Muhammad Ali Blvd.) 
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Louisville, KY 40202
502-585-3200 | Make Restaurant Reservations
Cuisine
Open
Dinner Tues.-Sat., Brunch Sun.Features
- Romantic setting
- Private room(s)
- Full bar
- Reservations suggested
- Piano Sun.
- Valet parking & parking garage
- Business casual
Wine
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 The spacious, wood-lined Oakroom, with damask white tablecloths and upholstered dining chairs, provides an elegant welcome echoing an earlier age. Even visiting U.S. presidents and British royals have dined at The Oakroom, but there's no sense of exclusivity from the highly professional staff. What's now the restaurant was originally the hotel's billiards room, and the private dining nook at one end was the card room where Al Capone, among others, enjoyed games in the 1920s. F. Scott Fitzgerald, who was also a guest, used the hotel for a scene in The Great Gatsby. Before you even think about dinner, unwind with a Seelbach cocktail. Served in a Champagne flute, it's a surprisingly refreshing, and palate-priming, blend of bourbon, sparkling wine and bitters. The cooking, previously overseen by now-departed chef Todd Richards (there is no new chef yet in place ) knows no culinary borders and draws on Continental, Asian, American and Latin culinary traditions to create the ever-changing tasting menus. One can order à la carte, but for the full Oakroom experience, choose one of each night's five-, seven- or ten-course tasting menus with optional matched wines. (The Oakroom has the region's finest cellar with more than 1,200 different wines.) Natural and regional ingredients are favored, so mushrooms and wild herbs collected from the state's woodlands and Kentucky-raised venison, bison, rabbit, pork, beef and free-range chicken star on the plates.
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